Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-02
Mr., AND MRS. BOWSER.
rVg OLD GENTLEMAN TAKES HIS WIFI
OUT FISHING
Fun Enough TO Make Even the Coy Shy Trout
Laugh IOudly-Mrs. 3 Gets Seventeen Fish
and Mr.. BOwSer ore Sla-BaSS


The other evening Hhen WI. DONSel
came home to supper he began to empty
his rockets of the ishhOoks and lines and
sinkers and bObbers and reels, and
naturally asked him what was going tC
happen. =,
When
Tomorrow
"Ent | can't go. You know mother
is"
Your mother by hanged, Mrs. BOwser!
You can take baby over there and We'll go
off for a little recreation.
DO you-you suppose We'll catch any
thing
You probably won't, for no woman
Knows how to fish There might be a
thousand bass and pickerel within foot
,f her hook and she wouldn't get bite.
However, you look worn out, and day OIL
will brighten yOu up.
..Wll YOU catch any fish, Dir. BOwser?"
"Humphl What do you suppose in
vested s. in fishing tackle fOT? don't
want TO give the exact number | shall
,,t,h. because there may be one more or
less. You had better tell the girl to clean
,ur one OF those kegs tonight and have it
all ready to salt down our ish in
Mr.. Bowser was in excellent good humoT
that evening. His talk run to bass, pick
erpl. wall-eyed pike aud perch, and he
srapt two hours with his fish lines and
s'nkers. tie gave me n long and enter
t,ipipy lecture on the habits of the pick
rrel-the pickerel weighing from three to
fopen pounds-and he followed that with
some chOise anecdotes of black bass
their powers OF sight, voraciOus appetites,
rtr. Fearing that he was OyeT-Sanguine
I irlt il my duty to observe:
Mr. Bowser, suppose You shouldn't
catch tsh2'
lie looked 1T me with such an injured
air that felt sorry tor him, but continued:
suppose should catch 'em ALP
He looked startled for q moment. Then
he came over to Inc with pleasant smile
an his flr-. PLACED his hand on my head in
, ftberIy way, and kindly replied:
NV dear. hope yOu will catch every
blessed fish in Lake st. Clair. Nothing
would give me more pleasure than to see
Won haul ont a wagon load. -
We went mp to the lake next morning
and began fishing from private dock. Mr..
BowSer got his tish line tied to the pole be-
f,r, We we're within 40 rods of the dock,
and when we were yet 100 feet away ne
NM minuow on the hook and jumped
a1t and ran for the dock, leaving me TO
hitch the horse. Ii looked bit selfish to
me- but / have since asCertained all huS-
hands who 20 fishing with their wives do
the same thing lie had been fishing %
minutes before got down, and asked him
II he had had any bites.
Bites. OF course not. You don't
think telegraphed the fish what minute
we'd be here, do YOU Ii you get bite in
an hour and q half you'll II do mighty well. v
No sooner had thrown in my hook than
l felt a yluk. aud the line was carried of
10 the left / called Mr.. BOwSer's atten-
ton 20 II and he replied:
Its probably IN old boot OF an oyster
eau. Don't get excited and fall Oft the
dock
Alter feeling a heavy tug at the line
made a pull accompanied by yell, and
To- / hodrd "a ,icee-pound bass on the
plauks 1 lust danced up aud down aud
yelled % Mr. BOwser to come and help me
Hsr,me over and growled:
"Hunrph, fIsh WAS making for my
bait when You happened to pull up. Nice
way that is 70 fish,
"Eut The hook Is in his month"
Well. don't stIrtls the people in the
graveyard, By some hook or crook or
h'under YOU have caught poor old worth
less shcypsI,ad, but don't break the dock
down over n,
He was .o arvjOuS to catch the next fish
tina, he woulIa'r stop to take mine OFF,
bnt finally got il loose rehaited the
hook ard a. dropped 1t in Mr.. Bowser
SAID
1T isn't likely that another accident
will occpr Int IT 1t does don't canteT
around ike a ,unatic. Your actions
heightened ,o immense tsh away from my
hook
rI.vel % bite, MI Bowser"
"E,r<h'"
Put 7 surely do"
Mis-. Eowscr, don't you dare to pull
mp your line and scare my fish away
kuew had fish and pulled and
landed q pound perch. couldn't help
hut clap my hands and call to Mr.. Bowser,
aud be replied.
Are you baby or a grown woman!
Are son the only person ON earth who ever
caught a. poor starved perch, which no
doubt took .tis means of committing SUI
eide
"Eu' come over and fish in this place "
Never There isn't another fish within
A. rods o! your'
dropped Juv hook in again and got an
other perch Then came a rock bass and
u th,d perch. didn't say word to Mr..
E5wssr and he whistled to himself and
pretended not Ia see anything. At the
next east oct tug on the line which
made the pole bend like q whip, and |
called To Mr. Epwser to come and help ute.
I'm not fishing for dog he called,
a. he hobhed hls line IN vicious way.
The fish played back and forth half y
dozen umr>, and then yentured to pull
hjm in hand over hand and lift him up
10 was a magnificent pickrel. l called to
Mr.. Howscr, hut he wouldn't come. | had
added three more pickrel to my string be-
fore he came over and said:
Mrs HowSer, We are going home"
But il isn't noon yet. ~
Make no difference | can't neglect
Important business To fool around here.
IL ISN'T the right sort ct i day for fish any
how"
"Isu I t,.' replied, as landed another
perch.
See here" he said in hOarse whisper
As she came near, If Won go home and
orag about this I'll"
"HU' / Won't"
You can own up to catching perch OF
two, hat"
"iou can claim al the rest if you'll
stay"
We stayed. caught seveteen fish, great
aud small, and Mr. BOwser got one little
sun bass. Ca the way home he held up
The string 10 every friend, and when they
asked who caught EN- he invariably re-
Piled.
Who. Well, Mrs. Bowser caught one
and mad two more bites It's her first ex-
perlenCe "
Ihe next morning he actually claimed
U" me that he caught all but one, and
when rehuked him, he hotly remarked:
that's n, That's IL, Dragon Your